hreowlice

Old English

Alternative forms
  • hrēoƿlīċe

Etymology

From hrēow +‎ -līċe.

Adverb

hrēowlīċe

  1. miserably, cruelly, grievously, in a way to excite pity.

Descendants
  • Middle English: reowliche, reuliche, rewly

References
  • hreówlíce in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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